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Barkli Park is a residential complex with sport-center of Moscow Committee of Sport. It is situated in the neighborhood built mostly in soviet period, but on the border of the historical park named Ekaterininsky. There was a small sport-school on the site previously, so the developer had to compensate spaces for it in a new building. It means that architects had two clients on the same plot.

The architectural project for this house consists of two main volumes; ground floor and superior floor.

The ground floor embraces the architectural program of the house and is organized by a longilineal volume that incorporates all of the wet areas; two bathrooms, kitchen and laundry room. This main volume stretches along the whole extension of the house, parallel to the lateral border and demarcating the end and initial point of the terrain.

Within the austerity of Jean Calvin’s protestant city, a tiny “nest” for living can be found. Hidden among the molasses sandstones that typify Geneva’s old town, the small apartment attempts to bring colours to the otherwise cavy and intricate architecture of the XVth century. The apartment has been conceived as a place for intimacy, with some slightly voyeuristic features that help bringing a sparkling feeling and natural light into the deep layout. The visual continuity that crosses the apartment from one façade to the other is set through an important interior window linking the bedroom with the kitchen and the living room. Everything can be seen and observed in one glance.

Kinematix is a spatial proposal developed for the headquarters of IT company Kinematix, specialized in developing technology for healthcare and fitness products. Integrated in a symbolical building from the sixties in the city of Porto, a former house for the cinema Lumiére, the space is defined by a rhythmical facade of windows, which covers all the length of the building.

Firstly named “National Drama Center of the Nord Pas de Calais” then “Theater of the Northern Countries” and finally renamed “La Comédie De Bethune” by Agathe Alexis and Alain Barsacq who managed it from 1992, this theater distinguishes itself by its location in the heart of a territory marked by the crisis.

Project: The Extension-Renovation of The Comedie De Bethune–National Drama Center

Location: BETHUNE, FRANCE

Photography: Philippe Ruaul, Luc Boegly

ENGINEERS & CONSULTANTS:

Stage design: BATI-SCENE

Structural engineering: KHEPHREN

Acoustics: Jean-Paul LAMOUREUX

Fluids engineering & economy: HEXA INGENIERIE

Scheduling and coordination: HD PROJECT

MAIN FIRMS:

Shell : RAMERY

Façades : DITER

Partitions – ceilings : C4M

Woodwork : BARA MENUISERIE

Painting-wall coatings : VANDENDRIESSCHE

HVAC and plumbing : BONNEL

Electricity – Networks : EIFFAGE ENERGIE

Stage equipment: CAIRE-MANGANELLI

Surface: 2.0820 sqm in total, including extension of 720 sqm , Extension & restructuring cost: about 3,6 million Euros
including all taxes Theater of 350 places, with grid, 15-meter high and 14-meter large scene frame, 15,50-meter large and 13,50-meter deep theater floor with trap room, grid and fake grid. Rehearsal space with grid.

Large budgets and enormous amounts of energy are spent on the upgrading of major Dutch railway stations in Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Rotterdam. The efforts at creating quality environments related to public transport should not be limited to the station building itself. By paying close attention to all public space surrounding the railway hubs, the promise of true Transport Oriented Development can be kept alive. Maxwan’s plans for Rotterdam Central District emphasize the quality of that public space.

Awards: Featured in coffee table book ‘Apartment Living’ by Jenna Reed Burns, a Sydney-based journalist with an interest in design and architecture. She has written for all the major Australian design publications including Vogue Living, Belle and INSIDEout, and is the author of Australian Beach Houses and Private Sydney.

Additional: In late 2000, the owner bought the apartment for $685,000.

Information: The refurbishment was completed in late 2002 and was later sold for $1,495,000.

Located on one of the grand boulevards of central Athens, this multi residential development with commercial spaces has views of the city skyline and the Acropolis.

Designed with an environmentally friendly and socially responsible ethos. The clever use of an exposed concrete structure with an external thermal insulated façade system provides a structurally robust and energy efficient structure.

On the ground floor are commercial spaces. A two (2) bedroom apartment on the first floor. A two (2) story two bedrooms plus study over the second and third floors. And another two (2) bedroom apartment on the forth floor.

Inaugurated by Explorations Architecture in November 2014, the Schuman bridge is the 17th bridge built on the Saône in Lyon. The international competition for the Schuman bridge, held in 2009 by the Urban community of Lyon (Grand Lyon), brought together designers such as Renzo Piano, Marc Mimram and Dietmar Feichtinger.